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...overwhelming enthusiasm. C. In Venice, the U. S. exhibition of 63 paintings and no prints, including "old masters" like Winslow Homer and moderns like John Sloan, was overshadowed by a big British show. To signalize better Anglo-Italian relations, England, which sent no art to Venice's biennial two years ago, shipped 24 Epstein bronzes, 25 paintings by Christopher Wood, a roomful of work by Stanley Spencer, led enthusiastic Italian critics to call the British show the finest in the history of the biennial. C. In Paris, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art's Three Centuries...
...Party of the U. S. A. is affiliated with its fraternal Communist Parties of other lands through the Communist International. . . . Resolutions and decisions of International Congresses shall be acted upon by the supreme authority* of the Communist Party of the U. S. A.. the National Convention, or between (biennial) conventions, by the National Committee...
...bill which can be guaranteed to rush through House and Senate like a flogged sailor running the gamut is the biennial highway bill, authorizing the expenditure of millions of dollars for U. S. roads. Practically untouched by human hands, the bill (this one was for $484,000,000) was unanimously passed by the House last week. There was contention on just one point. Michigan's Representative Jesse P. Wolcott (Rep.) wanted an amendment that would dot U. S. highways with frequent comfort stations. Opposition came from two Democratic Congressmen, Milton H. West of Texas and Claude A. Fuller...
Constitution Hall, the only auditorium in Washington big enough for the biennial convention of the United Mine Workers of America, is owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution. There John L. Lewis' miners met in 1936, there they expected to meet this year-until a few weeks ago when the D. A. R. changed its mind...
Liberal and labor groups will also consider plans for introducing in the State Congress measures to raise the compulsory school age to 16 years, gain the right of women to serve on juries. They have declared themselves against biennial sessions of the Legislature and in favor of the Civil Rights Bill...